The Middlesteins Attenberg JamiPaperback
The Middlesteins Attenberg JamiPaperback For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. She's obsessed with food--thinking…
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The Middlesteins Attenberg JamiPaperback
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth.
Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. And Rachelle-- a whippet thin perfectionist-- is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party.
Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?With